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  • Students select in order of preference up to eight schools and are assigned to their first-choice down to their last-choice, in rank-order of their scores until all available places in each of those schools are filled.

    Alex Mallory: SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket Alex Mallory 2011

  • Students select in order of preference up to eight schools and are assigned to their first-choice down to their last-choice, in rank-order of their scores until all available places in each of those schools are filled.

    Alex Mallory: SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket Alex Mallory 2011

  • Students select in order of preference up to eight schools and are assigned to their first-choice down to their last-choice, in rank-order of their scores until all available places in each of those schools are filled.

    Alex Mallory: SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket Alex Mallory 2011

  • But this is of course true of most forms of competition: Most academics I know can rank-order everyone in the room at a professional conference with the speed and precision of a courtier at Versailles.

    Spend It or Save It? Megan McArdle 2011

  • Another approach is what I would term rank-order multiple choice.

    Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Students select in order of preference up to eight schools and are assigned to their first-choice down to their last-choice, in rank-order of their scores until all available places in each of those schools are filled.

    Alex Mallory: SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket Alex Mallory 2011

  • Students select in order of preference up to eight schools and are assigned to their first-choice down to their last-choice, in rank-order of their scores until all available places in each of those schools are filled.

    Alex Mallory: SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket Alex Mallory 2011

  • My claim is that grouping these questions together and effectively asking students to "rank-order" them in terms of truth or falsehood should reduce at least the type I errors.

    Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The following is a rank-order list of the most common reasons caregivers give for recommending a cesarean: 1. Failure to progress in labor See below.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • The following is a rank-order list of the most common reasons caregivers give for recommending a cesarean:

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

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